Three Desserts at Telepan

For Valentine's Day, Stephanie and I got a table at Telepan at 9pm.  (I mention the time because this is by far my favorite time to eat.  Steph would prefer 7ish.  I'm resisting the general trend towards eating dinner at 5pm when you're 70).


Telepan is an amazingly good restaurant.  But we're also glad to support chef Bill Telepan, who gives generously in many ways to our neighborhood public school, P.S. 87.


We both began with "Egg in a Hole."  I simply cannot tell you how good this is -- a poached egg in the middle of brioche toasted in butter and garlic, with sauteed wild mushrooms on top.  Midcourse Steph had Lobster pasta and I had mushroom gnocchi, both very good.  And then for an entree, Steph had the trout (recommended by our friend Marcella, Steph admitted she wouldn't have ordered it otherwise!).  And I had the scallops in lemon cream sauce with egg pasta.  The scallops were cooked perfectly and the pasta was simple but tasty.


By this point the tasting menu had nearly done us in.  But dessert is included, so there's no stopping short.  We had a great waiter, named Jeffrey.  He talked us through our dessert questions.  Steph decided on a chocolate mousse over a peanut butter cookie with peanut butter ice cream.  I decided on the dark chocolate bread pudding with malt chocolate ice cream.  But the dessert we agonizingly left out was the lemon white chocolate cake with lime ice cream and candied orange peel.  To our suprise, Jeffrey brought us all three, with the quip that "Chef Telepan likes to take care of the P.S. 87 parents."  We ate all three.


Now we want to go back on a Sunday evening again for the burger they do only on Sundays.